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EETPU threat (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Report by Rodney Bennett on decision by the TUC to demand the electricians union (EETPU) end some of it’s no-strike deals within two weeks or be suspended from congress. Interview with EETPU General...
Kings Cross Underground fire inquiry conclusions (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
A review of the Kings Cross Underground fire disaster inquiry, the arguments the inquiry has heard and the issues raised. Over 100 recommendations have been made. Includes report as the disaster unfolded by...
Douglas Hurd accepts identification card (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Home Secretary Douglas Hurd accepts an identification card issued by publicans from his Oxfordshire constituency to combat underage alcohol consumption. He says he endorses the scheme but is against a...
Moscow Communist Party conference (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev hopes the Communist Party conference in Moscow will accept changes to make perestroika unstoppable (excerpt of speech- through interpreter?). John Alcock reports on whether...
Police question M50 motorists over Marie Wilks murder (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Police cordon off the M50 motorway, question 4000 motorists and stage a reconstruction of events following the murder of pregnant mother Marie Wilks near Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire a week ago. Richard...
Klosters avalanche set off by royals (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Hans Dieter Kirchhofer, a Swiss magistrate has said in his report that the avalanche that killed Major Hugh Lindsay and crushed the legs of Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson in Klosters, Switzerland was set off by...
Violent crime in the UK (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Home Secretary Douglas Hurd is interviewed at a special conference in London on violent crime. He blames the rise in violence in market towns on the young and affluent seeking excitement and believes...
Gorbachev calls for drastic political reform in USSR (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
John Alcock reports on the speech by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the Communist Party conference in Moscow in which he called for further drastic political reforms and better human rights for Soviet...
School bus blast in Northern Ireland (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
The bombing of a school bus full of children in Northern Ireland by the IRA has prompted outrage- Northern Ireland Education Minister Brian Mawhinney and Ulster Unionist MP James Molyneaux react. Its...
Case of Wormhoudt massacre reopened (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Peter Spencer reports from Westminster on the re-opening in Germany of the case into the massacre of UK troops in Wormhoudt by the SS in the Second World War. Includes Commons speech by Armed Forces Minister...